Sentence examples for refusing to convict from inspiring English sources

That idea, floated by a federal judge in Manhattan several years earlier in another child pornography case but rejected on appeal, would give jurors the option of refusing to convict if the punishment seemed disproportionate, as several jurors had indicated they believed it was in Mr. Polizzi's case.

Or we rely on a jury to refuse to convict.

In a sense, the founding document worked: the Senate refused to convict.

Two jurors refused to convict despite the men having earlier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause explosions.

Yet cases may not reach the courts and, even if they do, juries may refuse to convict.

"We don't look back at the cases where juries refused to convict the killers of Native Americans".

The first trial ended in a hung jury when one of the jurors refused to convict on the grounds that he lacked "circumstantial evidence in the fourth degree".

The weight of these deliberations can greatly increase jurors' stress, the experts say, and some refuse to convict in cases where they believe the punishment exceeds the crime.

These facts do not reduce the guilt of silent witnesses, complicit law officials, communities that refused to convict those responsible or individuals who distributed postcards of lynchings.

Get out!" Lucy Lippard, the feminist art critic, took a lot of flak from her friends because she refused to convict Andre before he went on trial.

And, after the church was rebuilt, it was deeply engaged in the long struggle to bring to justice one of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner's killers, Edgar Ray Killen, whom an all-white Neshoba County jury refused to convict in 1967.